Alabama Farmer Shares Insights With Arizona Agriculture
• By Julie Murphree •
Arizona Farm Bureau
A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Larkin Martin is managing partner of Martin Farm, a family farming operation in northern Alabama. The farm’s principal crops are corn, wheat, soybeans...
Under the right conditions, cover crops are a tool for improvement. After harvesting a crop like cotton or grain sorghum, a cover crop rotation can increase soil organic matter, recycle nutrients, prevent erosion and suppress weeds.
Even though farmers and...
North Carolina farmer and cotton industry leader Brad Warren is using cover crops, no-till and new planter technologies to lower production risks and increase his farm’s overall sustainability.
One of the most pressing issues facing the U.S. cotton industry today...
In this 30-minute online presentation, Paul DeLaune —an associate professor and environmental soil scientist at Texas A&M AgriLife Research in Vernon, Texas — tries to demystify cover crops.
The use of cover crops is constantly making headlines and being featured...
• By Jeannette E. Warnert •
Consumers who purchase luxury cotton textiles want more than cool, soft, absorbent fabric. Increasingly, they demand clothing made from fiber grown using ecologically sound practices and they’re willing to pay for it, said speakers...
• By Amanda Huber, Southeast Editor •
Cover crops improve soil quality and provide benefits that help create a more sustainable production system for cash crops. Selecting a cover crop depends on the benefits the producer needs.
Audrey Gamble, Auburn University...
Healthy crops begin with healthy soil and researchers with the Clemson University’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program are teaching farmers how they can benefit from keeping their soils fit.
The researchers teamed up with other agricultural professionals and farmers...
Missouri agricultural scientists working in cover crops share in a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They will work with colleagues in 30 organizations across the country and around the world.
“The five-year project aims to increase...
Dr. Paul DeLaune, an associate professor of environmental soil science with Texas A& AgriLife Research in Vernon, Texas, will host a 39-minute webinar titled "Implementing No-till and Cover Crops in Texas Cotton Systems."
During the presentation, he will discuss no-till,...
Two farmer-mentors, specialists from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the Soil Health Institute will guide growers on July 25 through demonstrations and discussions of ways to improve soil health on Arkansas cotton farms.
The Healthy Soils...
• By Brent Murphree,
Memphis, Tennessee •
Throughout the Mid-South, Cotton Incorporated-funded water research is making huge impacts on how cotton farmers manage their irrigated crop.
Over the past 30 years, producers have improved irrigation efficiency in cotton 82 percent, according to...
University Of Arkansas Cover Crop Fact Sheet Now Available Online
Row crop producers wanting to explore cover crops as a way to help save water, manage weeds and improve soil now have the first of a series of fact sheets...
Arkansas cotton farmer Michael Mangrum is always looking for ways to do things faster and better.
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
Stories passed down by his maternal grandmother tell how his great-great grandfather and his brothers came from Oklahoma and settled...
Technology And Hands-On Efforts Work Together
By Carroll Smith
Editor
An impressive lineup of cotton varieties is available for the 2018 growing season, and farmers have been busy deciding which ones to plant on their farms. Although phenomenal yields and good...
Mid-South Report
Bill Robertson shows a disintegrated pair of 100 percent cotton briefs that were buried for five weeks in a field with a cover crop, demonstrating active, healthy soil. On the right, a pair of polyester briefs is still...
